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No. 738,7i3.

UNITED STATES Patented September 8, 1903.

PAT NT OFFIcE.

HERMAN E. CRANDALL, OF NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO CHARLES SCHEUER. AND MAURICE SCHEUER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

HO SE-SUPPORTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 738,713, dated September 8, 1903.

Application filed June 25,1902. Serial No. 113.097. (No model.)

To all whom it may cOnceWt:

Be it known that I, HERMAN E. CRANDALL, a citizen of the United States,.residing at New Britain, in the county of Hartford and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hose-Supporters, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in hose-supporters; and the object of my improvement is to produce a supporter of the loop-and-button class with a flexible buttonsurface at a small cost.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a front elevation of my supporter with the loop turned back and the upper end of the supporting-webbing broken off. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same with the loop more nearly in its position over the button. Fig.

3 is a sectional View, partly in elevation, on

the line no of Fig. 1, of thebutton portion of my supporter. Fig. 4 is a front elevation of the metal button and its plate. Fig. 5 is a sectional view corresponding with Fig. 3, but with the supporting-webbing differently applied.

My supporter belongs to the well-known loop-and-button class, in which a button is secured at the lower end of a suitable supporting-webbing and a loop for drawing over the said button is secured to the same supporting-webbing a short distance above the The button 5, its plate or base 6,

and the loop 7 are of metal and may be of any back of the button 5.

ordinary form. My improvement resides in the fabric-faced button; and I prefer to give this fabric face by covering the button with the supporting-webbing 8 when securing the button to the Webbing.

As shown inFigs. 1, 2, and 3 of the drawings, one end of the webbing is first passedthrough the lowereye of the button-plate 6 from the front and left under the plate at the The other end of the webbing is then passed from the frontthro ugh the upper eye of the button plate, then through the lower eye of the said plate from the back to the front, then carried around the extreme lower end of the plate to the back side thereof and passed toward the front through the'upper eye, "when it is drawn up tightly to fit snugly over the button, and the said upper end is turned upwardly, as shown,

may be pressed down thereon to force the button first through the larger part of the loop, and then the loop may be pulled upwardly to bring the button into the narrower and holding portion of the loop, as in any ordinary garment-s11 pporter of this class. webbing thus placed over the button readily accommodatesitself to the shape given it by the loop when forced over the same, and so completely fills the loop with a soft and somewhat elastic fabric that the supporter is not liable to be accidentally unfastened.

I am aware that rubber buttonshave been heretofore employed in garment-supporters of this class; also, that metal'buttons have had their shanks covered with rubber for the purpose of preventing accidental unfastening and that a prior patent shows and describes a button and loop of the class hereinbefore described in connection with a flap of rubber or cloth or other suitable material attached to the supporter and adapted to lie between the loop and the garment which ongages the button. All of said prior art is hereby disclaimed. By my improvement I accomplish every useful result that can be attained by the rubber button or rubber-covered shank, and at the same time I add practically nothing to the cost of the supporter over a supporter with the naked metal button. I also completelycover the button and secure the covering by means of the buttonbase, so that the button never comes in contact with the garment, because the fabric which covers the button of necessity comes between the button and the garmentinstead of coming between the loop and the garment, as in the supporter of the prior patent referred to in the foregoing disclaimer.

While I prefer to apply the webbing to the button, as shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3, so as to cover the upper and lower edges of the but- Thebing that is gathered about the button-stud into substantiallya wedge-shaped form underneath the button-head.

I claim as my invention- 1. A hose-supporter of the class described, consisting of the button and a fabric secured thereon and extending down on the sides thereof and adapted to be interposed between the hose and the button when the hose is supported thereby, substantially as described.

2. A hose-supporter consisting of the but ton-base, button-stud, holding-loop and a supporting-webbing, and a fabric covering the head and sides of the button-stud and held thereon by the button-base, substantially as described.

3. A hose-supporter consisting of the button-base, button-stud, holding-loop and supreams porting-webbing, with a portion of the said webbing extending from the button-base over the head of the button-stud, substantially as described.

4. A hose-supporter of the class described consisting of a button, a suspending webbing secured to the button-base and extending over the head of the button, and a loop adapted to be placed over the covering portion of the Webbing and head of the button, the tapering end of the loop adapted to crowd up the webbing at both sides of the button-shank, substantially as set forth.

5. A hose-supporter of the class described, consisting of a button and button-base having eyes, a webbing secured to the said button-base and eyes and extended over the head of the button, and a tapering loop secured to the said Webbingand adapted to be placed over the webbing-covered head of the button and adapted to crowd the sides of the webhing below the button-head into substantially a Wedge-shaped form, substantially as set forth.

HERMAN E. ORANDALL. WVitnesses:

JAMES SHEPARD,

SHEFFIELD H. CLARKE. 

